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I'll vote other/confused. Free will is axiomatic in science, and explicitly so in quantum mechanics. The experimenter has to be able to set up her app...

Not quite sure what's supposed to be going on here, but whatever it is, you can't generate the Reals that way.

Yes, I have encountered that opinion and worse. While I could accept, for the sake of argument, that robots are "aware", I am not prepared to surrende...

I thought this was a philosophy forum where people are motivated by something other than instinct? When animals create knowledge and in particular whe...

What is the shape of a finite, flat, homogeneous, isotropic universe with dark energy?

You could argue that this robot is aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY After all, if it was not aware of itself and the environment, th...

A robot can be programmed to pass the mirror test.

It's not a paradox, it is a property of infinity. If the universe is finite, then what's outside it? What does it expand into?

The fact that a non-aware machine can defeat the 2nd best human at an incredibly complex game should give you pause for thought.

No. Was AlphaGo aware of its opponent? No ape could even begin to understand the rules to Go. All animals have a set of genetically determined behavio...

Those rudimentary capacities, which obviously have to exist, do not include intentionality.

Really? This psychologist would certainly disagree: https://sites.google.com/site/rwbyrnepsychology/publication-downloads The classic "Byrne, R W (200...

Your finite hotel has nowhere to expand to. Hilbert's hotel can accommodate any number of extra guests, including an infinite number, at any time.

But animals aren't aware of themselves OR any other animal. They do not possess the quale of self-awareness or the quale of other-awareness. Imputing ...

Seems you might think that Hilbert's Hotel can't take any more guests?

Because all evil is due to a lack of knowledge, there is only one moral imperative: Do not destroy the means of error correction.

When you say that the quale "red" is unique, do you mean unique to you, to humans, to all animals?

Nothing can be "verified" including 'local' statements, because all observation is theory-laden and therefore fallible. Also, because of the Duhem-Qui...

Well, you're going to hate this: "If you insist on strict proof (or strict disproof) in the empirical sciences, you will never benefit from experience...

So you think the Duhem-Quine thesis is false for Solipsists?

"These objections of an imaginary conventionalist seem to me incontestable"

Why don't you then? And the solution is in the next section (20).

Not sure what the scare-quotes are for, but according to Popper, all falsifications are tentative. And of course he does not reject falsification, but...

LSD section 6: "...it is still impossible, for various reasons, that any theoretical system should ever be conclusively falsified." LSD section 19: "....

Do you appreciate how tedious this is? "In point of fact, no disproof of a theory can ever be produced;... Did you not read as far as p28 of the Routl...

Sure, the Instrumentalist fallacy is a thing.

What did he argue for?

Explaining explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=folTvNDL08A

If you are an instrumentalist - i.e. you believe that the role of science is to predict the outcome of experiments - or worse if you are a positivist ...

You have to be pretty confused about science and logic to be unable to distinguish between "experimental evidence" and "explanation" i.e. "explicanda"...

If that were the case, then why has there been any progress since Newton's gravity? If, as you assert, gravity is "just because" then why would anyone...

Sure, the Mind is just another physical process like life, creativity, knowledge, morality, and, a bit more prosaically, information and computation. ...

According to physics your qualia are not unique, even without simulation. It's a consequence of the Bekenstein Bound in an infinite universe. If they ...

You clearly want to change the topic from your qualia to your existence by conflating the two. "Being" and identity are interesting topics of course, ...

I missed the part where I claimed that the exact rendering of your qualia would BE you.

Image recognition software doesn't possess qualia either.

It is a consequence of the laws of physics that you, or any aspect of you, including your qualia, can be rendered exactly by a virtual reality generat...

As I mentioned in another thread: "Von Neumann showed that an accurate self-reproducer must consist of a replicator and a vehicle." Of course Chaitin ...

I wish you would. I have never seen an argument for qualia in animals beyond sentimental anthopomorphising. Animals cannot create the sort of knowledg...

If this were so, it would need to be encoded in the laws of physics or declared a new law of physics. For the moment, there is no indication that phys...

That is just going round in circles. You could just as easily have written: "Probability is just another way to quantify chance. You have 0.5 probabil...

If matter has subjectivity, then why don't animals have it?

But science and philosophy are different because their methods are different. Specifically, philosophy is not falsifiable. Hasn't this all been settle...

I've pointed out on more than one occasion that Neo-Darwinism does not require ill-defined or imaginary processes to support its thesis. It requires n...

Actually No! The modern theory of evolution is not biological. Replicators subject to variation and selection can is not a biology-specific theory. Re...

I find that a very odd point of view. What Darwinism has actually done is provide an explanation where there was none. The reason for biodiversity has...

Perhaps when they have a weapon in their hand and are pointing it at you?

This is uncomfortable viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQCQFH5wOJo

But it is the sort of "unasailable" argument that will be forgotten when we create an artificial mind. If you are wondering how we can know that we ha...

Why not do it then. Derive a "tends-to" from a "does". You will be famous!